Rex Ryan had this to say about his prodiction that his team would go to the Super Bowl in the 2011 season –

“What was I supposed to say?” Ryan said. “[The Jets] had gone to back-to-back championship games. I just wanted to make sure our team knew that, ‘Hey, look, guys, we were so close, we’re going to win this thing this year,’ and I was telling our players that and I was telling the league that. Unfortunately, it never quite worked out that way.”